Elders

Elders

Holly is a couple Sim days older than Seth, though in short order, they both age up. Elders act just like adults, with a few exceptions. Holly loses the ability to reproduce, but Seth still can… not that he will, of course, since Seth is definitely loyal unlike a certain tool maid from a certain previous Sims universe. (Kelly National is still arguing with him in the Sim Afterlife.)

As elders, both Seth and Holly suffer stronger decays to their Energy meters, and they’re more easily susceptible to getting fat. Right off the bat, actually, both slouch a bit and take a slight hit to their bodies; Holly especially is the victim of gravity.

Elders who hold jobs can also retire from their jobs, drawing a pension. They can continue to keep working, but the aforementioned severe attrition penalty to the Energy meter may make it tough., Seth has been an astronaut for quite awhile, and though he only works one day a week, his shift is from 7am to 1am—that’s an 18-hour shift! Even in his younger, adult-stage years, that killed his Energy meter! And now, even when slacking off as a job strategy, he takes so much stress that it takes him days to recover. Seth simply wants to relax now; going to the moon is a young Sim’s game.

Seth (and it has to be Seth, as Holly can’t do this for him) goes to the phone and selects the Retire command. After confirming it, Seth no longer has to go to work, and gets a daily pension, which is nice since the household was used to his weekly astronaut paychecks. Like a real pension, it’s not a whole lot, and Seth wouldn’t be able to support Holly and three kids (the other three have moved out by now) while trying to expand the house, but it’s more than enough for mere survival. Pensions are based on how much he was earning in the first place, so while he could have retired from any level of any job, he makes a large pension because he retired from the final level of the Military career track.